Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are not our thoughts.

Not by hatred is hatred conquered, but by love alone. This is an eternal law.

When thoughts arise, recognize them as the display of your own awareness, like recognizing your own children in a crowd.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness--life's painful aspect--softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

The path is the goal. Every step of the journey is the journey.

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.

When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity for accepting and having compassion for them is there.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.